Wednesday's TV choices

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Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS? One Year On (BBC2)Last year, Sir Gerry Robinson, management guru, found tales of woe at Rotherham District General Hospital, which had called him in to sort out its problems. As he wrote in this newspaper on Monday, one year later there is good news: a smoothly- run hospital boasts shorter waiting lists and harmonious staff relations. But there is still an issue about its longer-term future, and whether the NHS will deliver acceptable health-care under current Government plans. PWD

Born Survivors: Looking after Mum (BBC3) With around 175,000 people in Britain classed as young carers, the second episode in this eye-opening series uncovers the story of Melissa, 12, and Ryan, 14, who for the past six years have had to look after a mother who suffers from chronic depression and, more recently, osteoporosis. With their dad having left home, money is tight, so the pair sort out the bills, do the shopping and cleaning – on top of going to school and doing their homework. SH

Russell Brand on the Road (BBC4)That supreme hedonist Jack Kerouac has inspired many to follow in his path. Now he has another devotee in Russell Brand, who, to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kerouac’s On the Road, goes on his own US coast-to-coast journey in homage to his hero. The cameras follow the sharp-witted Brand and his BBC Radio 2 colleague Matt Morgan as they head for Kerouac’s home town in Lowell, Massachusetts, and his grave, before setting off “Beat Generation-style” to travel across America from New York to San Francisco. Along the way, the pair meet Kerouac’s friends together with some of the people he originally encountered while writing the book. SH

The Pink Floyd Story: Which One’s Pink? (BBC1)There’s an apocryphal story about Pink Floyd’s first meeting with their American record company: “Which one’s Pink?” asked an executive – the point being that Britain’s foremost “underground” rock band never marketed themselves as personalities. Which didn’t mean, as we know, that their personalities never clashed. This new film, comprising rare footage and interviews with the group’s surviving members, charts their progress through the psychedelic era, LSD, fallouts and the stage-managed reunion at 2005’s Live 8 concert. PWD